Mr. Speaker, over the weekend, the social development minister said, “...the majority of single parents are low-income, so income splitting would not benefit them.”
However, it is actually worse. Whether they are low-income or high, single moms and dads get nothing, simply because they are single.
Canada today has over 1.5 million single-parent families. In the words of Jim Flaherty, why does the government think it benefits our society overall to make those who cannot split pay for the more privileged who can?